
A delicate and very touching film about the art of consciously feeling and enjoying life despite a fatal disease that changes everything. Carpe diem.
A delicate and very touching film about the art of consciously feeling and enjoying life despite a fatal disease that changes everything. Carpe diem.
How do coming out and applying for asylum fit together? Better than feared in this film by Sonam Larcin. The story of a slow arrival, in warm tones and tender gestures.
The big wolf leads a contented life. Until one fine morning the little wolf turns up and moves in with him.
A village portrait that resembles a documentary nocturnal walk through the dreams of strangers. The joy of optical illusions is combined with humorous editing here.
A dusty plain, as smooth as a sheet of paper, with a horse and rider on it, as fast as an arrow, almost weightless. But this is only training; the big race is yet to come.
600 film reels of insect recordings – a flea market find leads to the psychological study of a Brussels surgeon and a type of man who shares his habitat with audibly scurrying chitin carapaces.
Anouchka talks about her long-term alcohol addiction, which she tries to overcome in an autofictional screenplay. Reading, speaking and first person narrative gradually begin to mix.
A road movie in Abkhazia: The puppet artist Sipa Labakhua meets Georgian peasants, Orthodox priests, Abkhazian nationalists, Syrian refugees – and confused identities.
This homage to the Congolese city of Lubumbashi unfurls to become a critical journey, revealing fatal correlations of the global economy. We in the North play a certain role, too.
Marona-Sara-Ana-the-Ninth is of noble descent, but not a princess. She was given her names by her master and mistress. The modern fairytale about a dog raises questions of identity.
Who wants to sleep when there’s so much to discover by torch light in the room?
Why is their own body terra incognita for so many women? A skilful cinematic expedition to social causes and erogenous hot spots.
Film snippets from the Royal Belgian Film Archive – combined into a fascinating monologic discourse about individual and collective loss of memory and transience.
A compilation of archive material from the Saint-Alban Hospital in France, where doctors and nurses tested a pioneering new way of dealing with mentally ill patients even before 1945.
A journey into the light of southern Italy. Migrants work for starvation wages while vacationers enjoy themselves on the beach next door. The hunger for leisure, for life, and the small-big world in between.
An unagitated, performative stocktaking of the subject of rape. Alexe Poukine recovers the offence from the dark zone and lets victims and perpetrators speak.